# Walnut Creek City Treasurer Ronald Cassano is running uncontested for Walnut Creek City Treasurer. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. Walnut Creek's City Treasurer is a separately elected, citywide office. The term is four years. The Treasurer receives and safely keeps the city's funds. The Treasurer also reports monthly to the City Clerk and Council on city finances. - Jurisdiction: City of Walnut Creek - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/walnut-creek-treasurer - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 7, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 92 out of 100 (Very strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Ronald Cassano** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent City Treasurer Ronald Cassano is running unopposed; they were the only candidate who qualified by the filing deadline. Walnut Creek's City Treasurer is elected on its own, citywide. The term is four years. Walnut Creek is a General Law city. So its Treasurer holds the default duties state law sets for the office. The Treasurer receives the city's money and keeps it safe. The Treasurer also files a written monthly report with the City Clerk and City Council. That report covers receipts, disbursements, and fund balances. The duties come from California Government Code Sections 41001 and 41004. The county's own post-certification candidate records confirm no one else filed for City Treasurer this cycle. The city's own Elections page confirms it too. So the office is uncontested, not merely unopposed by omission. ## Ronald Cassano The incumbent, seeking another term as City Treasurer. Their filed ballot designation is simply "Incumbent." They qualified for the ballot on July 22, 2026, and the city's own Elections page independently confirms they were issued nomination papers as the sitting Treasurer. **Strengths:** Sitting officeholder seeking continuity in the role. **Trade-offs:** This dataset found no independent (non-official) reporting evaluating their tenure -- what's documented here comes from the county's candidate filing and the city's own page, not outside scrutiny. **Keep in mind:** With no opponent, this is a retention question, not a comparison. A real, multi-method search (city site, Ballotpedia, Cal-Access, web/news search) found nothing beyond their incumbency and filed designation. ## Sources 1. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Positions Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": lists Walnut Creek's two offices with expiring terms this cycle -- City Treasurer and 2 Councilmembers -- with no Mayor or City Clerk line item](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/26Nov03_PositionsUpForElection.pdf) 2. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Contest/Candidate Proof List" (8-27-26_candidatelist_detail_final.pdf), the county's post-certification ballot-order-proofing export: flags "WalnutCreekCouncil" (Vote for 2, 2 qualified candidates -- Cherise Marie Khaund, Community Organizer/Parent, qualified 8/4/2026; Brendan Moran, Small Business Owner, qualified 8/6/2026 -- with the contest's own Incumbent(s) field naming Cindy L Silva and Matthew Francois as 'Elected' but neither appearing among the qualified candidates) and "WalnutCreekTreasurer" (Vote for 1, 1 qualified candidate -- Ronald Cassano, ballot designation 'Incumbent,' qualified 7/22/2026) both ON BALLOT, despite neither race drawing more candidates than seats](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/8-27-26_candidatelist_detail_final.pdf) 3. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Candidate List" (8-14-26_candidatelist_summary_final.pdf), the county's complete qualified-candidate roster: independently confirms the same two-candidate Walnut Creek Council field (Khaund, Moran) and the same single Treasurer filer (Cassano)](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/8-14-26_candidatelist_summary_final.pdf) 4. [City of Walnut Creek -- City Clerk "Elections & Voter Registration" page: confirms three November 3, 2026 offices -- City Council (2 seats) and City Treasurer (1 seat), with no City Clerk race -- states no nomination papers were issued to either outgoing Council incumbent, and names Ron Cassano as the sitting Treasurer to whom papers were issued; read via a Google Translate proxy after walnutcreekca.gov itself returned HTTP 403 to every direct fetch attempt in this pass, including curl with a standard browser User-Agent](https://www.walnutcreekca.gov/government/departments/city-clerk/elections-voter-registration) 5. [Wikipedia -- "Walnut Creek, California": 2020 census population of 70,127; incorporated Oct. 21, 1914, the 8th city in Contra Costa County; General Law city with a 5-member council elected at-large to staggered 4-year terms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek,_California) 6. [California Government Code §§41001, 41004 (Title 4, Division 3, Part 3, Chapter 3, "City Treasurer"): default statutory duties for a General Law city's elected Treasurer -- receive and safely keep the city's money (Section 41001), and submit a written monthly report of receipts, disbursements, and fund balances to the City Clerk and legislative body (Section 41004)](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=41001.) ## The rest of the ballot Walnut Creek City Treasurer is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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